Design Thinking for Educators
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Why Design Thinking
Empowering Educator Transformation
We are taking BUILD’s 25 years of experience working with hundreds of educators and thousands of students across the country and sharing our best practices from our program.
Our curriculum and training have been created and modified through teacher feedback, education innovation, and student co-creation.
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This guide leads you step by step through a transformative journey of collaboration with youth. This comprehensive playbook is designed to navigate educators, designers, and policymakers through distinct phases, ensuring a holistic approach to co-design.
Program Phases
Discovery
Recruitment
Session Planning
Building Relationships
Implementation
Evaluation Discovery
Determine your purpose and objectives.
Before launching a Youth Advisory group, you need to map out where you are going. The Discovery Phase is when you determine your purpose and objectives and name the learning arc.
RecruitmentPlan for outreach, recruitment and student prep.
You have mapped out what you want to learn and are feeling excited and hopeful!
Session Planning
It’s time to map out your sessions!
Co-design experiences work best when you have a well-thought plan in place. In the Session-Planning phase, you will match your hopes and goals to the experience by setting an agenda, designing the flow and getting ready to lead the youth!
Building RelationshipsBuild community and positive relationships.
In this Phase, we give you tips, tricks and strategies for how to build meaningful relationships with youth. Check out multiple videos and ideas for ways to engage young people as you co-design with them.
Implementation
Let’s get this show on the road! It’s time toengage!
Your planning is done, you’ve sent messages, calendar invites, you have your outcomes and you are ready to goooo!
This Phase just includes some additional ideas for running your sessions and your design sprint overall.
Evaluation Look at your objectives and gather insights.
Your sprint or focus groups are complete and now it’s time to reflect. Go back to your session planning documents and look at your objectives. What questions did you ask and what insights did you hope to gather?
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We empower educators to shape the future of learning by helping you engage with youth. Meet the dedicated individuals who comprise our dynamic team, committed to providing exceptional content and support.
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Benefits for Teachers
- Highlight and make connections to 21st Century Skills
- Know the steps to Human Centered Design/Design Thinking
- Create opportunities for their students to practice empathy
- Access the BUILD Design Challenge and 10 hour curriculum & digital tools
- Thought-partner with a network of teachers and plan a strong start to the school year
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